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Ruixun Zhang (Peking University)”A Quantitative Approach to Optimal Impact Portfolios”

Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance Time: 11.00 am Date: 18th of January  2023 Room 2036 Ruixun Zhang (Peking University)"A Quantitative Approach to Optimal Impact Portfolios" Abstract : We develop a mathematical framework for constructing optimal impact portfolios and quantifying their financial performance by characterizing the returns of impact-ranked assets using induced order statistics and copulas. […]

Andrea Salvati (UCL) “Teacher Instruction, Classroom Composition, and Student Achievement”

Applied  Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 18th of January Room : 3001   Andrea Salvati (UCL) "Teacher Instruction, Classroom Composition, and Student Achievement" Abstract : This paper explores teachers’ instructional decisions and their implications for the distribution of student achievement. Canonical models of student performance often assume that teacher effectiveness is independent […]

Ihsaan Bassier (LSE) “Collective Bargaining and Spillovers in Local Labour Markets”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 22th of January Room : 3001   Ihsaan Bassier (LSE) "Collective Bargaining and Spillovers in Local Labour Markets" Abstract : How does collective bargaining affect the broader wage structure? How are such spillovers transmitted? In imperfectly competitive labour markets, a rise in wages in the covered […]

Eugène NDIAYE (Apple Research) “Finite Sample Confidence Sets with “Minimal” Assumptions on the Distribution”

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Date: 22th January 2024 Place: 3001   Eugène NDIAYE (Apple Research) "Finite Sample Confidence Sets with "Minimal" Assumptions on the Distribution"    Abstract: If you predict a label y of a new object with $hat{y}$, how confident are you that ”y = $hat{y}$”? The […]

Louise Paul-Devlaux (Harvard) “Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 24th of January Room : 3001   Louise Paul-Devlaux (Harvard) "Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco" Abstract :This paper examines how minimum wage policies affect gender gaps in employment and wages in a setting characterized by a large informal sector and wide initial gender […]

Léa Pessin (ENSAE-CREST) – Racial-Ethnic Stratification in Work–Family Strategies among Black, Hispanic, and White Couples

Sociology seminar - Thursdays Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  Date: 25th January 2023 Place: room 3105 ZOOM  : https://zoom.us/j/96820777040?pwd=OUgycU1NYmxWOEJCTk92OHpNTHc5dz09 Léa Pessin (ENSAE-CREST) - Racial-Ethnic Stratification in Work–Family Strategies among Black, Hispanic, and White Couples Abstract: This talk builds on work–family scholarship and intersectional frameworks to document racial-ethnic variation in couples’ work-family strategies, i.e., the […]

Florian Grosset (Columbia) “Complementarities in Labor Supply”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 25th of January Room : 3001   Florian Grosset (Columbia) "Complementarities in Labor Supply" Abstract :This paper examines complementarities in labor supply:  to what extent does a person's desire to work at a firm depend on whether others in her social network also work at the […]

Justine Knebelmann (MIT J-PAL) “Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 26th of January Room : 3001   Justine Knebelmann (MIT J-PAL) "Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal" Abstract :The implementation of government programs requires a list or register of individuals who are eligible for the program. Building these registers accurately is a challenge […]

Gökce Gökkoca (TSE) “Antibiotic Stewardship in Primary Care: Evidence from Pay-for-Performance in France”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 29th of January Room : 3001   Gökce Gökkoca (TSE) "Antibiotic Stewardship in Primary Care: Evidence from Pay-for-Performance in France" Abstract :This paper investigates whether financial incentives for curbing antibiotic prescriptions are effective and how the design of incentives plays a role in influencing physician behavior. […]

Alina Ozhegova (Norwegian School of Economics) “Assortment Choice and Market Power under Uniform Pricing”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 30th of January Room : 3001   Alina Ozhegova (Norwegian School of Economics) "Assortment Choice and Market Power under Uniform Pricing" Abstract :This paper studies how retailers strategically use product assortment to respond tolocal market conditions when prices are set at the national level. When firms […]

Enrico Rubolino (Lausanne) “Market Externalities of Tax Evasion”

Applied Seminar  Time: 12:15 pm - 13:30 pm Date: 31th of January Room : 3001   Enrico Rubolino (Lausanne) "Market Externalities of Tax Evasion" Abstract : This paper shows that tax evasion significantly distorts market competition and firm growth. Using administrative data on the universe of firms in Italy, we compute a tax evasion proxy […]

Felix ELWERT (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Causal decomposition of group disparities

Sociology seminar - Thursdays Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  Date: 6th Febuary 2024 Place: room 3001   Felix ELWERT (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Causal decomposition of group disparities Abstract: Social scientists often ask how an intermediate treatment variable contributes to group-based outcome disparities. E.g., how does family formation contribute to the gender-wage gap; how […]

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